“Justice is my third dog,” Mullins said. “I’ve had two stolen since I started this walk.”

Who would steal a dog from Captain America?

“I don’t know why but it’s happened a couple of times,” Mullins said. “I’d go inside a store to get them something to eat, chain up the dog outside and when I got back someone had unlatched the chain and took my dog.”

“I’ve been trying to go into places like PetSmart now when I walk through cities,” he said. “You can take your dog inside.”

He’s a “dog man.”

“I guarantee you I’ll go hungry before my dog will,” Mullins said.

Rockdale turned out to be a much needed pit stop for Justice who received a donated nail clipping and doggie shampoo.

Justice was acquired just up US 79 in Buffalo.

ROAD ADVENTURES—Not all his nightly destinations have been so accommodating.

“I was walking down the road in Pennsylvania and the next thing I know I’m waking up in a hospital two days later,” Mullins said.

“Somebody hit me in the head with a beer bottle,” he said.

He’s lost a signature part of the Captain America look.

“I had a shield but it got run 0ver,” Mullins said. “A lady stopped me at the side of the road and talked to me for probably half an hour. I laid my shield down and when she started her car, she ran over it.”

He gets a lot of comment from the public. “People smile and wave and say encouraging things. Of course there are some that curse at me. I’ve been called lots of things.”